Covid-19 scuppers journey down Amazon of Asia, the Kapuas River in Borneo, so a road adventure has to suffice

Although international travel remains rare in the Asia-Pacific region, domestic tourism in some countries has been booming for months. In Thailand, Phuket saw a huge uptick in visitor numbers for the Vegetarian Festival, in October, with hotels booked out for the first time since last March. Australia is enjoying its biggest holiday boom since the 1970s, with summer bookings at popular east coast holiday towns up by two or three times compared with 2019. And a recent on-site assessment by the…

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